>Saw that too. But that can be overcome by setting the listbox Value property to an item in the list to select it.

Yes...just considering things while eating lunch here. Okay, suppose you set it to a value in the Gotfocus, an idea. But if the user already has a value set and selected, and wants to keep it, you can allow for this, but then tabbing through controls will not show a difference in the listbox. If you remove selection, say in Lostfocus, the user may become confused. I think that's why we don't see apps doing this sort of thing, just a WAG...I'm not picturing a good way to do the search using a "standalone" listbox mixed with other controls :)